When: 30th May 2026, 14-16h Workshop / 17-18h Reading Session / 19-22h Concert.
Where: Raum für kulturelle Fragen e.V., Brüningstraße 25, 65929 Frankfurt am Main.
Fee: Free entry. Donations are welcome
This will be Naviar's first event in Germany.
As always, we'll start with an introductory workshop on haiku poetry, followed by performances by members and friends of Naviar.
Haiku Workshop (14:00-16:00)
The haiku workshop will be hosted by Klaus-Dieter Wirth.
Wirth has been writing haiku in German, English, French, Spanish, and Dutch since 1967 and publishing his work internationally since 1995.
He is a member of seven European and North American haiku societies and has been a freelance contributor or served on the editorial staff of journals that include Sommergras (Germany), Lotosblüte (Austria), Blithe Spirit (U.K.), Gong (France), Vuursteen (Netherlands/Belgium), Frogpond and Modern Haiku (U.S.A.), Haiku Canada Review, Hojas en la Acera (Spain), Haiku Novine (Serbia), Iris (Croatia), Haiku (Romania), Kō (Japan), Whirligig (Dutch and English), and Chrysanthemum (German and English).
He has published some 400 poems, essays, and articles and currently has four quadrilingual haiku collections in print. Der Ruf des Hototogisu: Grundbausteine des Haiku (The Call of the Hototogisu: Basic Building Blocks of Haiku; 2020), is his two-volume compendium of essays including more than 1,890 original and translated haiku.
LIVE SHOWS (Starting at 19:00)
Friends of Alan (DE/ARG)
Friends Of Alan is the project of Fernando Bravo and Torsten Goerke.
Fernando Bravo is a researcher in music technology and computational neuroscience living and working in Dresden (Germany). A couple of years ago, he decided to put half of his work time into social endeavours. Fernando initiated the OpenGuitar project for children and teenagers from disadvantaged backgrounds. The OpenGuitar is an experimental frameless nylon-string guitar that can be assembled in small workshops.
Torsten Goerke is an independent researcher and artist based in Dresden, Germany. Fascinated by MOD trackers at the age of 10 he started making computer-based music and later learned to play the guitar. His music now combines live coding, tinkering with electronics, lunetta-style CMOS-based noise machines and cirquit bending experiments with modular sound synthesis and electro-acoustic sounds.
vheissu77 (DE)
German producer vheissu77 has been an avid musician since 1992, playing the keyboards in various bands for decades. In 2019, he shifted his focus to creating electronic music, diving deeper into the craft. The pandemic led him to rediscover his passion for ambient music, and he released his first solo album, Musik Vom Berg, in 2020. He's been highly prolific ever since, also drawing inspiration from the Naviar Haiku challenges, which he started joining in 2022. 2024 marks a new chapter as he began to perform his own music live.
Wanja Olten (DE)
Wanja's music explores the subconscious, the unspeakable, and the poetic.
Born in Northern Hessia in 1973, Wanja Olten has been immersed in music since childhood, starting with piano and drums. After studying design at HfG Offenbach in 1996, he stayed active in music, working with indie-bands and creating music for children from 2002 to 2010.
In 2016, Wanja began a solo journey, building an analogue studio and later blending digital elements into his sound. By 2024, he embraced a more productive phase, combining these two sonic worlds.
zenbytes (DE)
Active musically in the late 1980s, Bernhard Straub (zenbytes) returned to electronic experimentation in 2018 after a long break. He has performed live at Drone Day events for five years and discovered the Naviar haiku challenges in 2022, since then he has regularly released tracks inspired by ambient, drone, glitch, and techno.
the event is supported by:
